Edgar Carranza

Edgar Carranza (1994-) was a Guatemalan-American immigration rights activist. He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia in a Guatemalan immigrant family, and his father was the family's sole provider. When he was 13, his father was deported after being found without a driver's license, and Edgar and his brother were put under foster care. His brother was fostered 40 times and, after committing a crime at the age of 17, he was put in prison for 11 years. Edgar was only allowed to visit his brother three times during their teenage years. On 8 August 2019, he was interviewed by CNN about immigration raids in Mississippi, where he expressed how the crying children's reactions were traumatizing for him, and that their futures would be hard due to prejudice.